Russia proposes limits on technologies deemed threat to human personality

Russia’s State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin has said that modern technological development requires a stronger legal framework incorporating moral and ethical evaluation of legislation.

In an article published in Rossiskaya Gazeta, Volodin argued that lawmakers should introduce legal restrictions on the use of technologies that could threaten the “destruction of human personality.”

He emphasised the need to develop what he described as a moral and ethical examination of laws, particularly in relation to emerging fields such as digitalisation, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data processing, genetic engineering, and biotechnology. According to him, these areas raise fundamental questions regarding human rights protection and constitutional principles.

“That is why, in the new technological era, concepts such as conscience, our traditional values, human morality, humanism, faith in one’s own strength and in one’s country will become increasingly important in the work of the State Duma,” Volodin said.

By Vugar Khalilov